Nancy Cooper Frank

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

A truly beautiful bird that is a light to medium muted pink color who's feathers cover it like a dress or skirt it has black legs and a very long light pink beak

Roseate Spoonbill bird in flight

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

Leon Bakst was a painter and scenic designer. He received his artistic instruction at the Imperial Academy of Saint Petersburg and Paris. In 1898, he participated with the impresario Serge Diaghilev in founding a group called The World of Art. In 1900, he began designing theatrical sets and costumes. In 1906, Bakst went to Paris with Diaghilev where he exhibited his work at the First Exhibition of Russian Art at Salon d'Automme, organized by the latter. In 1912, Bakst designed the sets and costumes for the ballet Thamar, produced by Diaghilev, and first performed on May 20th of that year at the Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. The plot was based on a text by Russia's premier Romantic poet Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-41); the choreography was created by Mikhail Mikhaylovich Fokine (1880-1942); the music was written by composer Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837-1910) for whom Bakst executed a pencil portrait, circa 1910. The style of Bakst's costume for the servant is evocative of Art Nouveau or Jugendstil as are his designs for the sets.

Study for a Costume https://collections.artsmia.org/art/12269/

So….how does blowing the Iranian PEOPLE to bits rectify the human rights abuses committed against them by the current Iranian Govt? Carney? Carney?….. CAaaarnnneeey?

Good point!

“'Gugusse and the Automaton,' a long-lost film by the iconic French filmmaker George Méliès at his Star Film company.

The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot."

"It had not been seen by anyone in likely more than a century."

I was alive when it happened and yet, I only learned this within the last 12 months. I truly thought it was a shipwreck in the 19th century, and I’m not THAT old

Don’t threaten me with a good time, National Eagle

The Lost Ancient Prequel to the Iliad and Its Stories | TheCollector The events that led up to the Trojan War were recorded in a lost epic poem called the Cypria. What do we know about the lost work?

The Lost Ancient Prequel to the Iliad and Its Stories | TheCollector

www.thecollector.com/cypria-epic-...

post a pic you took, no context, to bring a little zen to the feed

b&w photo of a chicken coop on a balcony with a woman bending into the coop and a small dog leaping up to it

Tending a chicken coop on a balcony high up on a Parisian building in the 9th arrondissement in 1917 (@gallicabnf.bsky.social, @labnf.bsky.social) 🗃️

stanley tucci with members of the gold medal winning USA women's hockey team

crying in the club* (*at my desk) bc stanley tucci took the USA women's hockey team out for a meal at his favorite restaurant and they gave him his own jersey

A black t-shirt with an illustration of a hotdish in white and grey, with the text “Suspicious Hotdish” in white

Not to mention my special teams jersey

I was so excited to see @theferocity.bsky.social load and empty his clip (and have another one ready) for Paul Thomas Anderson. It is is obscene and so fucking extractive to watch him on an awards circuit claim apolitical while using immigration as a modern day underground railroad in his film!

Tabletop, calico kitty loaf occupying a cozy jigsaw puzzle

I’ve become such a cliche in my oldladyhood and that’s fine with me. Cup of tea not pictured

Cover of The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño. Sadly the translator’s name is not on the cover.

My companion for the last several weeks. I‘m sad to part ways. An inexplicably absorbing trip. A barely detectable plot, dozens of side roads taken and yet, I’m smitten. Kudos to translator Natasha Wimmer.

It’s enough to make a cat laugh

Help us support our trans patients Gender affirming care is more than just appointments Obtaining affirming care when you are trans is not easy in Alabama. Hormones are banned until a person is 19 years of age, there are very few provi...

Here is a link to trans support if you are interested. And hopefully in a month or two I can unveil our big new surprise initiative around it ;). wawchealth.networkforgood.com/projects/256...

That’s a good approach, much better than yelling at the rep as someone else suggested

Study: Dolly Parton is the Greatest Everything is terrible, obviously, and I have been getting particularly fed up with the general state of literacy I’m seeing in the world. And considering that for some reason my video about the Fo…

For what is apparently the 10,001st post on Skepchick (and my own 3,000th), it's a HAPPY STORY of how scientists have shown that Dolly Parton is substantially improving literacy rates around the world through her Imagination Library 🧪 skepchick.org/2026/02/stud...

"The natural law itself, no less than devotion to humanity, urges that ways of migration be opened to these people. For the Creator of the universe made all good things primarily for the good of all."

Pope Pius XII, Exsul Familia Nazarethana (1952)

I’ll stay away from the yellow ones too

Goo to see people standing up

The End of Baseload Power as We Know It | OilPrice.com China and France are retrofitting coal and nuclear plants to operate more intermittently, reflecting how growing renewable penetration is reshaping traditional base-load generation economics.

„To us, fossil plants built in the next few years are like new telegraph offices opened after 1960.“

oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

After Isabel was released from a Minnesota detention center, ICE didn't return her work permit, ID, checks worth $700, or her daughter’s US passport.

She's one of many now missing key immigration and identity documents.

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

Denver is done with Flock, plans to hire Axon as new license plate reader system provider The City and County of Denver intends to hire a new company for license plate reader services, Mayor Mike Johnston's Office announced Tuesday.

"Axon must also agree to adhere to state law. The company can't provide Denver data for civil immigration enforcement, abortion-related investigations or any purpose not explicitly in its city license plate reader contract." www.denver7.com/news/front-r...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF